expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

noun:

• being so broad-minded as to accept all sorts of things, both good and evil; being broad-minded enough to be tolerant of people of all shades - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of
• to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title); to falsify (e.g. a seal)

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• salary supplement, e.g. for work performed at inconvenient times or as overtime allowance usually for so-called exempt workers, i.e. workers who are expected to work a certain number of overtime hours ➜ 割増賃金

godan ~つ verb / transitive:

• to cut loose; to let loose; to cut off; to detach; to dismember; to cut in two
• to separate in thought; to consider as independent

conjunction:

• but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well

particle:

• even
• however; no matter how; even if; even though
• ... or something
• either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... - as 〜でも〜でも

prefix:

• pseudo-; quack; in-name-only - before an occupation, etc.
• for lack of anything better to do - before an occupation, etc. ➜ でもしか

noun:

• seasonal word (in haiku) ➜ 季語
• seasonal topic (in haiku); seasonal word used as a theme (at a haiku gathering)

noun:

• two-sword school; style of fencing with one sword in each hand ➜ 二天一流
• liking both alcohol and sweets; person who likes both liquor and sweets
• bisexuality - colloquialism
• player who can play as both pitcher and fielder - Baseball term

noun:

• water and sky
• Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)

noun:

• kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning; phonetic-equivalent character; substitute character
• kanji used for their meaning, irrespective of reading

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to act as an agent for; to intermediate
• to announce (someone's arrival); to answer (the door, the phone); to receive (a guest at reception); to usher in (a guest)
• to convey (a message)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
• to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
• to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
• to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
• to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
• to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
• to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
• to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
• to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
• to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
• to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
• to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
• to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism

suffix / godan ~る verb:

• to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun / ~する noun:

• being at a complete loss as to what to do; being at one's wit's end; being at a loss for an answer - four character idiom

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to move (house); to transfer (department)
• to change the target of interest or concern
• to elapse (passage of time)
• to be permeated by a colour or scent
• to be infected; to be contagious; to spread (as in fire) - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• musical note; note symbol
• phonetic symbol (incl. the kanji and kana-doubling symbols, vowel-lengthening symbol, etc.)
• part of a kanji for which the role is primarily to represent the pronunciation (as opposed to the meaning) ➜ 意符

noun:

• single crime that naturally consists of a number of incidences and is charged as only one count (e.g. habitual gambling)
• crime whose goal requires a large number of people acting together (e.g. insurrection) ➜ 集団犯罪

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to have someone send (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (via someone else); to leave (a message) with someone
• to use as an excuse; to make a pretext of - archaism

counter:

• counter for sheets, pages, leaves, etc.
• counter for blocks of tofu; counter for servings in a restaurant
• counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc. ➜ 挺

noun:

• even number ➜ 半【はん】
• 109.09 m ➜ 町

noun:

• the wise readily adapt themselves to changed circumstances; the wise are quick to acknowledge their mistakes and correct them - four character idiom
• (in colloquial usage, ironically or as an excuse) the wise make no scruple in suddenly changing their demeanor

expression:

• leave no room for scandal; don't do anything that can be misinterpreted; don't straighten your cap under a plum tree (because when you raise your hands it might look as if you're trying to steal the plums) [literal] - proverb

particle:

• denotes uncertainty ➜ とやら
• such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like; A and B and whatnot - as ＡやらＢやら...

noun:

• circle (sometimes used for zero) ➜ 丸【まる】
• 'correct' (when marking) ➜ 二重丸【にじゅうまる】
• symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship) ➜ 〇〇【まるまる】
• period; full stop ➜ 句点
• maru mark; semivoiced sound; p-sound ➜ 半濁点

noun / ~する noun:

• slamming one's hand into the wall in front of somebody (e.g. to stop them from leaving; often viewed as romantic) - slang
• banging on the wall (e.g. to quieten one's neighbour) - colloquialism